The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds by Thomas Schmidinger; Michael Schiffmann

Author:Thomas Schmidinger; Michael Schiffmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2019-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

1Since that time, secular Arab opposition militias acting under the banner of the FSA have only been present in the south of Syria, at the border with Jordan.

2“Grenzmauer zwischen der Türkei und Syrien,” TRT Deutsch, December 18, 2017, accessed September 30, 2018, http://www.trt.net.tr/deutsch/turkei/2017/12/18/grenzmauer-zwischen-der-turkei-und-syrien-870775.

3This, in turn, is a merger of several former secular FSA brigades that had largely been expelled from their original regions by the political Islamic brigades of the former FSA and their jihadist allies in September and October 2013.

4Thomas Schmidinger, Rojava, (Vienna: Mandelbaum, 2016), 141.

5Ibid., 143.

6Interview with Rêdûr Xelîl, February 14, 2017.

7“Syria’s Kurds to Open First European Office in Moscow,” Rûdaw, February 7, 2016, accessed September 30, 2018, http://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/070220161.

8“Mevlut Mert Altintas: Turkish Policeman Who Shot Russia’s Envoy,” BBC News, December 20, 2016, accessed September 30, 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38377419.

9Thomas Schmidinger, “Militärische Expansion mit US-Unterstützung: Aktuelle Entwicklungen in Syrisch-Kurdistan,” in Wiener Jahrbuch für Kurdische Studien 5: Sprache—Migration—Zusammenhalt: Kurdisch und seine Diaspora, ed. Katharina Brizić et al. (Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2017), 237.

10“U.S-Backed Syrian SDF Forces Refuse to Support Astana Meeting Results,” Ekurd Daily, January 19, 2017, accessed September 30, 2018, http://www.kurdishinstitute.be/u-s-backed-syrian-sdf-forces-refuse-to-support-astana-meeting-results/.

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